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Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke.

Wherfore are we counted as beestes, & reputed so vyle in youre sight?

Lo, ten tymes haue ye reproued me: are ye not ashamed, for to laugh me so to scorne?

knowe this then, yt it is God, which hath handled me so violetly, & hath compased me aboute with his scourges.

Though he be magnified vp to the heaue, so that his heade reacheth vnto the cloudes:

yet he perisheth at the last like donge: In so moch yt they which haue sene him, saye: Where is he?

He vanysheth as a dreame, so that he can nomore be founde, & passeth awaye as a vision in ye night.

So that the eye which sawe him before, getteth now no sight of him, & his place knoweth him nomore.

so that he shal nomore se the ryuers and brokes of hony and butter:

He deuoured so gredely, yt he left nothinge behynde, therfore his goodes shal not prospere.

For though ye wicked haue neuer so moch to fyll his bely, yet God shal sende his wrath vpon him, and cause his battayll to rayne ouer him:

so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe.

Is it with a man, that I make this disputacio? Which yf it were so, shulde not my sprete be the in sore trouble?

And though God saue their childre from soch sorowe, yet wil he so rewarde theselues, that they shal knowe it.

So Eliphas the Themanite gaue answere, & sayde:

Now because yt God is hyer the the heauens, & because thou seist yt the starres are so hye,

Therfore recocile the vnto God, & be content, so shal all thinges prospere wt the right well.

For who so humbleth himself, him shal he set vp: and who so loketh mekely, shalbe healed.

Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

This is ye cause, that I shrenke at his presence, so that when I considre him, I am afrayed of him.